Myrath
| Myrath | |
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 Myrath in Madrid, 2016 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Progressive metal , power metal |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | http://www.myrath.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Tough Zorgati | |
| Malek Ben Arbia | |
| Anise Jouini | |
| Elyes Bouchoucha | |
| Morgan Berthet | |
| former members | |
guitar |
Oualid Issaoui |
Drums |
Fahmi Chakroun |
bass |
Zaher Hamoudia |
singing |
Tarek Idouani |
Drums |
Saif Ouhibi |
Drums |
Piwee Desfray |
Myrath ( Arabic ميراث 'Erbe, Vermächtnis') is a progressive metal band with oriental influences from Tunisia , which was founded in 2001. From 2001 to 2005 the group was known as X-Tazy .
history
Guitarist Malek Ben Arbia, then 13 years old, formed X-Tazy in 2001 with two friends he had known all his childhood: Fahmi Chakrounn (drums) and Oualid Issaoui (guitar), who were both 14 years old. Then they took bassist Zaher Ben Hamoudia and singer Tarek Idouani into the band. During the first two years the band played covers of other blues , heavy metal and death metal bands .
In 2003, the trained keyboardist Elyes Bouchoucha joined the band, who not only took over the position on keyboard, but also succeeded Tarek Idouani as singer. In this new occupation Myrath played several concerts with other cover versions, mainly from the common favorite band Symphony X .
At this time the band also started writing their own songs in progressive metal style with oriental influences. After further line-up changes, the band released the demo album Double Face in March 2005 , which was produced by the band itself.
In December 2006 the band released Hope with Kevin Codfert as producer, the keyboardist of the band Adagio , whom the band had met at a rock festival. In June 2007 the singer Zaher Zorgati joined the band.
The Desert Call album received good reviews. Among them were 8.5 out of 10 points in Rock Hard No. 277 and 6 out of 7 points in the Metal Hammer issue 06/10.
The band performed at the ProgPower Europe Festival in October 2010 , which the audience rated as one of the best at the festival. In November and December 2011 they toured Europe with Orphaned Land , Arkan and Artweg.
The title of the album Legacy , released in 2016, is an eponym of the band name. An elaborate video was shot for the song Believer , which was financed through crowdfunding .
Discography
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Studio albums
- 2005: Double Face (CD; self-distribution, as X-Tazy )
- 2007: Hope (CD; Brennus Music / Musea)
- 2010: Desert Call (CD; XIII BIS Records)
- 2011: Tales of the Sands (CD / CDR; XIII BIS Records)
- 2016: Legacy (CD / LP ; Verycords / Ear Music)
- 2019: Shehili (CD; Verycords / Ear Music)
Live albums
- 2020: Live in Carthage (CD / DVD; Verycords / Ear Music)
Compilations
- 2018: Merciless Times (2xCD; Spiritual Beast) Only published in Japan.
Singles
- 2018: Dance (CD; Verycords / Ear Music)
Music videos
- 2010: Empty World
- 2011: Merciless Times (Direction: Sendi Zehadi)
- 2016: Believer (Director: Ivan Colic)
- 2018: Dance (Director: Ivan Colic)
- 2019: No Holding Back (Director: Ivan Colic)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Denis Labbé: Interview du groupe par Denis Labbé (Le Fantastique) . Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 25, 2008.
- ↑ Rock Hard: [1]
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ News article on the video clip Believer by Rock Hard: https://www.rockhard.de/news/newsarchiv/newsansicht/43548-myrath-praesentieren-making-of-video-zum-believer-clip.html
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany
- ↑ http://www.metalstorm.ee/events/news_comments.php?news_id=9945
- ↑ http://www.myrath.com/?p=releases
